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Los Angeles is possibly the city that has most actively played with its own image; it is endlessly negotiated, to the point that it possesses a kind of mental glaze characteristic of ethereal images. I like the thought that Los Angeles is initially encountered at a distance, through screens, literally, like a continuous mediated surface of images. Those of television, film, literature, or through the widow of a car. It precedes the experience. It floats like an ambiance, almost synthetic in its persistence, which fiction has ceaselessly ingested. Until the city, in turn, absorbs its own fictions. In LA Politics Giovanni Intra offers this observation: “Everything you read about Los Angeles is true. The city adapts to its own mythology.” The city adjusts to its narrative, shaped by its own projections, its processes of visualization, melancholically inhabited. The city is first and foremost a rumor made of pixels. In reality, it exists in an unreal mode.
Under the effect of prolonged…
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Los Angeles is possibly the city that has most actively played with its own image; it is endlessly negotiated, to the point that it possesses a kind of mental glaze characteristic of ethereal images. I like the thought that Los Angeles is initially encountered at a distance, through screens, literally, like a continuous mediated surface of images. Those of television, film, literature, or through the widow of a car. It precedes the experience. It floats like an ambiance, almost synthetic in its persistence, which fiction has ceaselessly ingested. Until the city, in turn, absorbs its own fictions. In LA Politics Giovanni Intra offers this observation: “Everything you read about Los Angeles is true. The city adapts to its own mythology.” The city adjusts to its narrative, shaped by its own projections, its processes of visualization, melancholically inhabited. The city is first and foremost a rumor made of pixels. In reality, it exists in an unreal mode.
Under the effect of prolonged…
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